Vice President Pence Endorses Grassley-Wyden Prescription Drug Bill

Washington – Vice President Mike Pence today praised the
Grassley-Wyden Prescription
Drug Pricing Reduction Act and reiterated President Donald Trump’s
commitment to passing their bipartisan bill and signing it into law. Last night
in his State of the Union address, Trump praised
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) work to lower
prescription drug prices and called on Congress to pass bipartisan drug cost
legislation.

“President
Trump, Vice President Pence and Secretary Azar have all endorsed our bipartisan
bill to lower prescription drug prices. It remains the only bipartisan bill in
Congress that would significantly reduce prescription drug costs,” Grassley
said.

Earlier
today, Grassley spoke
on the Senate floor and called on the chamber to act.

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KILMEADE: Infrastructure, prescription drugs. I
mean, but how could we see that and expect that? Because you talked about
health care in the speech, but there’s nothing on the docket for health care
that we could see straight ahead, or is there?

EARHARDT: Remember? He said put it on my desk and
I’ll sign it.

PENCE: Yes, well first off, we could lower the
cost of prescription drugs...

KILMEADE: With whose program?

PENCE: Well look, we’ve got
legislation that’s bipartisan legislation. Chuck Grassley, Ron Wyden have
worked on in the United States Senate. I’ve been in meetings in the West Wing
where we’ve talked about this, and the president said pass the bipartisan bill.
Put it on my desk. We’ll lower prescription drugs for the American
people. I mean, we can work on health care.